~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.

After Rep. Sean Duffy questioned her commitment to her Green Raw Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lost it, spewing no science and no facts but lots of hyperbolic talking points. He references the elitists of which she is one.

“This is not an elitist issue, this is a quality of life issue,” she ranted ragefully. “You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist? Tell that to the kids in the south Bronx, which are suffering from the highest rates of childhood asthma in the country.”

Ah, but the Bronx is far-left clean air community.

“Tell that to the families in Flint whose kids have their blood ascending in lead levels, their brains are damaged for the rest of their lives. Call them elitist.”

Flint is the result of corrupt Michigan Democrats and has nothing to do with the climate change gibberish[…]

Last week Chele Farley, the Republican NY Senate candidate took on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand in a 30-minute political debate (that’s all Gillibrand would agree to, I believe). Shame on the Senator and as most Progressives up for election this year, she brought nothing to the table.

When Gillibrand wasn’t lying or ignoring the question, she was attacking President Donald J. Trump. Besides, it being apparent that Gillibrand was auditioning for 2020, she under-estimated Farley who brought her “A” game.

“The federal minimum wage has been a stagnant $7.25 for far too long, forcing workers to juggle multiple jobs while barely making ends meet. For years, the CPC and progressive groups like Fight for $15 and Good Jobs Nation have fought for workers’ right to a living wage and have continued to show how low wages impact the daily lives of working families.”

“The Raise the Wage Act shows the Democratic Party is unified in committing itself to workers and addressing the economic hardships families are facing every day….

Do as I say, not as I do.

Big talk coming from those who held all three executive branches of government through 2012 and did not act. In fact, the subject of raising minimum wage did not come up until 2013 after Progressives lost both Houses.

Those who threw their weight behind the Fight for $15 agenda, sponsored and co-sponsored the Pay Workers a Living Wage Act are hypocrites. Pursuant to an analysis by Employment Policies Institute (EPI), 95% of Progressives in both Congress and the Senate who support the legislation to force corporations to pay their workers $15 per hour do not pay their interns.

Of those that do offer a stipend, Senator Bernie Sanders is the only member who pays an hourly wage….Senator Sanders’ office only pays interns $12 an hour, short of his $15 proposal.

In the House of Representatives, Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Keith Ellison, Maxine Waters and 145 other cosponsors do not pay their interns. Only 9 members from both chambers offer some form of a stipend, representing 5 percent of cosponsors.

“It’s hypocritical to rally for a $15 minimum wage when these lawmakers don’t pay their own entry level employees a cent,” said Michael Saltsman, EPI’s managing director. “Policymakers might object to paying interns because it will reduce the number of available opportunities–but the same dynamic applies in the private sector, where businesses are forced to cut staff or close down.”

Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hi.), Sen. Mazie Hirono (D., Hi.) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.) offer stipends or some assistance but they are only under certain conditions or to cover expenses like travel or housing.

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) said stipends are often available but they are not guaranteed….

On Thursday, the Senate published the revised healthcare bill titled, the Better Healthcare Reconciliation Act. It is not a complete replacement but it’s not simply a fix either. The bill is a refinement of the House bill.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer came out Thursday with their prepared remarks on the Senate healthcare bill as soon as it was released. These two must be speed readers since they already condemned it.

Democrats would not take part in the process of writing the healthcare bill but they do like to criticize it.

Senators have a week to read the 142-page bill and offer amendments. By way of contrast, Republicans had 24 hours to read the more than 2,000+-page Obamacare bill, but were not allowed to offer amendments.

Obamacare was written in secret and Republicans were not allowed to participate in the planning. With this new bill, however, Democrats were invited to participate in the writing of the bill and they refused, to a man.

It is clear that Republicans could present a bill written under a collaboration of Jesus, Allah and Yahweh and Democrats would have rejected it. Democrats are obstructionists. They are party of ‘no’.

District attorneys now have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.”-Sol Wachtler, Chief Judge of New York State, 1985

The Grand Jury

A grand jury case is presented by a prosecutor representing “the People”, citing only the evidence that he believes he can use to gain a conviction in a court of law. That’s why grand jury indictments are considered almost automatic once sought…and why the refusal of St Louis County grand jury to indict Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson was so rare.

This grand jury offer will be too.

People v People of the United States

What we are seeing today is an attempt by the combined American media, Democrat Party, and (if you read The Guardian) the worldwide Left, to indict not only Donald Trump, but the People of the United States, who elected him.

And, if you haven’t already noticed, as in all grand jury proceedings, neither President Trump nor the People of the United States are represented.

The objective of the Democrat-Media alliance is to not only obtain an indictment through public opinion in such a way they can gain an impeachment against President Donald Trump, but in such a convincing manner that the People of the United States will meekly accept the impeachment and will meekly return to the place that was always reserved for them by the Left before their unfortunate meddling in the election in November.

In that way, the people of the United States will not be able to find the wherewithal to rise up and hang the whole goddam lot of them, which, if I were a Democrat, I would strongly take into consideration.

So, 1) They don’t want Trump’s impeachment to appear like a coup, and

2) They don’t want to end up like Jake Spoon.

Of course, to create a safe distance of separation between itself and the people of the United States, the Democrat-Media Alliance will once again ask select members of the Republican Party to stand in the breach, if for no other reason than to get a sense of the strength of that first wave of public reaction[…]

Wouldn’t it be nice to be a laid-off auto worker or an outsourced, unemployed Disney worker to have Uncle Sam ferry you to billionaireville (that’s Davos to us) for a Swiss skiing holiday and a chance to job-hunt among 1,500 of the world’s top CEOs.

That’s what the political class, particularly from the White House, is perking itself with these days as a whole lot of them, with questionable official reasons to be there, suddenly descend on the Swiss ski resort to talk green energy, global governance, synergies, convergences and other trendy hip topics popular with the jet-set[…]

All of the above in addition to five U. S. senators and eight congressmen, among them Kevin McCarthy, Congress Majority Leader will be skiing and hobnobbing with global elitists courtesy of the American taxpayer.